Viola KeatsFilmography

Born:: March 27, 1911 in Doune, Pershshire, England
Occupation:: Actor

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The Witches

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies

Synopsis: This film was a pet project of Joan Fontaine, based on a novel by Peter Curtis. It was her last feature film. Fontaine stars as teacher Gwen Mayfield, who is in charge of a missionary school in Africa. A witch doctor puts a curse on her, and she has a nervous breakdown. Returning to England, she Read More

1966
Tamahine

Actors: Nancy Kwan, John Fraser, Dennis Price, Coral Browne, Dick Bentley, Derek Nimmo

Synopsis: In this confused parody, a lovely South Seas island girl travels to England following her father's death and becomes the ward of her cousin. The women is exotically beautiful and men turn into fools whenever she passes by. But the innocent lass has no idea that she is so lovely and seductive. At Read More

1964
Witchcraft

Actors: Lon Chaney, Jr., Jack Hedley, Jill Dixon, Viola Keats, Marie Ney

Synopsis: In this spooky horror film set in an old English village, the trouble begins when a man endeavors to dig up a cemetery containing the charred bodies of witches burned at the stake 300 years before. The warlock who looks after the family cemetery tries to stop him, but cannot. As soon as their Read More

1964
One Step Beyond: Signal Received

Synopsis: Watson (Mark Eden), Breed (Terry Palmer) and Hughes (Richard Gale) are three British sailors, serving on the HMS "Hood" during WW2. Granted shore leave, the three tars head to their respective homes, where each of them hears a bizarre radio report, announcing that the "Hood" has been lost at sea Read More

1961
Two Wives at One Wedding

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a prominent doctor marries a wealthy young woman. Their happiness is marred when a French woman begins blackmailing him with her claims that they are still married. Her actions cause an investigation and it is revealed that he'd been involved in the underground. As a result Read More

1961
Operation Snafu

Actors: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King

Synopsis: Alfred Lynch and Sean Connery star as a pair of klutzy RAF members, during World War II, who are more interested in running petty confidence scams that toting rifles. Though they doggedly avoid extra effort of any kind, Pope (Lynch) and Pascoe (Connery) are sent on a top-secret mission. The more Read More

1961
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Warren Beatty, Coral Browne, Jill St. John, Lotte Lenya

Synopsis: Vivien Leigh plays Karen Stone, a middle-aged actress whose career is in a tailspin. To assuage her hurt feelings, Karen goes on a vacation to Rome with her husband, who dies en route. Her best friend (Coral Browne) compassionately arranges for a young Italian escort (read: gigolo) to keep Karen Read More

1961
She Didn't Say No?

Actors: Eileen Herlie, Wilfred Downing, Ann Dickins

Synopsis: In this gently humorous farce, an unwed Irish mother who has six children by some of the town's finest fathers finds herself bedeviled by the townsfolk who find her a liability to their sterling reputations. They try different ploys to get her to pack up her illicit clan and move. Then they pool Read More

1958
Two Who Dared

Actors: Anna Sten, Henry Wilcoxon, Viola Keats, John Garrick, Romilly Lunge, Guy Middleton

Synopsis: Having flunked out as Sam Goldwyn's answer to Greta Garbo, Russian actress Anna Sten retreated to Britain for the 1936 historical drama A Woman Alone. Based on a novel by Fedor Ozop, the film is set in 19th century Russia. Sten plays a peasant girl who falls in love with military captain Henry Wilcoxon Read More

1937
The Guv'nor

Actors: George Arliss, Gene Gerrard, Frank Cellier, Patric Knowles, Viola Keats

Synopsis: Eminent British stage star George Arliss is a most elegant tramp in The Guv'nor. Though shabby and indigent, Arliss seems to have a lot more financial savvy than most of London's established financiers. Through a fluke, Arliss is mistaken as a member of the Rothschild family (the actor did, after Read More

1935
Her Last Affaire

Actors: Hugh Williams, Viola Keats, Francis L. Sullivan, Sophie Stewart, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1929 as S.O.S. (also the title of the Walter Ellis play that is its basis), Her Last Affaire switches the sexes of its leading characters so that the protagonist is now a male, Alan Heriot (Hugh Williams). Heriot is the secretary to Sir Julian Weyre (Francis L. Sullivan) a Read More

1935
The Pointing Finger

Synopsis: In this costume melodrama, a nobleman, aspiring to becoming an earl, devises an evil scheme to murder his relative. His plot eventually fails and justice, as always, prevails. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1934
Too Many Millions

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a millionairess tires of being badgered by the paparazzi and trades places with her maid so she can rest. While disguised as a commoner, she meets and falls in love with an aspiring artist. In the end, she decides that love is more important than money and wedded bliss Read More

1934
The Night of the Party

Actors: Jane Baxter, Viola Keats, Ian Hunter, Leslie Banks, Ernst Thesiger

Synopsis: Based upon the play Murder Party by Roland Pertwee and John Hastings Turner, Night of the Party uses one of the murder mystery genre's favorite conventions, that of a parlor game gone wrong. In this instance, the game is being held after a dinner party thrown by the ruthless publishing tycoon Read More

1934
Matinee Idol

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, a popular German performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister innocent of murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
His Grace Gives Notice

Actors: Arthur Margetson, Victor Stanley, Lawrence Hanray, Barry Livesey, Ben Welden

Synopsis: In this romance, a butler falls in love with his master's snooty daughter who will have nothing to do with him because he is but a commoner. The butler's life is about to dramatically change when he learns that he is to be the next Duke of Marlow. He keeps that news to himself as he wants the girl Read More

1933
Too Many Wives

Synopsis: In this comedy, a husband has his maid pose as his wife during business functions after his real one deserts him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1933
Enemy of the Police

1933